Bird Reasoning

A little known and striking tostonee of foresight and industry exhibited by a bird is that of the Californiaii wpodpecker. Like others of its kind, this bird is an in?ect eater. Yet in view of the approach of I winter it prepares a store of food of a vvliolly differem, character and arranges th'.s with as mach care as an epicure might devote to the storage of bis wine in a cellar. In the suminer the woodpecker lives ou ants. i'or the winter it stores up acorns. To hold each acorn it hollows a small hole in a tree, into which the acorn is exactly fitted, and is ready to be split by the strong bei.k of the climbing wood pecker, though U tightly held to be stolen